Lived experiences of public consumption : encounters with value in marketplaces on five continents / edited by Daniel Thomas Cook.

Other author Cook, Daniel Thomas, 1961-
Format Book
Publication InfoBasingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionxv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesConsumption and public life
Consumption and public life. ^A717355
Contents Introduction: Dramaturgies of value in market places -- Part I Playing In and With Market Places -- 1. The play of authenticity in Thai handicraft markets -- 2. Tradition, adventure, and pleasure in Santiago, Chile's informal markets -- 3. Shopping for people, or Shopping for people?: Deciphering the object of consumption among tourists in Banaras -- Part II Blurred Boundaries Between Market and Home -- 4. 'Pleasure from bitterness': Shopping and leisure in the everyday lives of Taiwanese mothers -- 5. 'Attention, shoppers - Family being constructed on aisle six!': Grocery shopping and the accomplishment of family -- Part III Transgressions and interstitial spaces -- 6. Spreadiing like a dis/ease?: Afro-Jamaican higglers and the dynamics of race/color, class and gender -- 7. 'The flow of words and the flow of value': illegal behavior, social identity and marketplace experience in Turin, Italy -- Part IV Global Patrons, Globalizing Markets -- 8. Beyond borders: the politics and place of the global shop -- 9. Framing a Fair Trade Life: tensions in the Fair Trade Marketplace -- 10. The mall and the street: practices of public consumption in Mumbai -- 11. 'They come, and they are happy': a gender topography of consurmer space in Dubai.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007051164
ISBN0230517048 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780230517042 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HF 5470 .L58 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold